The Watering Hole

I should know better, but here is a 28 second clip of the EJ and Rebel 20 (guitar only.)  Finally had some time to crank it and loosen up the speaker a bit.  I also put couple of US made GT 12ax7s in V1 and V2.  The upper mids seemed a little harsh at times and I think the tube swap helped psychologically.   ;D

NICE sounds !!  8-)

Ciao !
Marco

...and nice playing!

I would not have guessed that was a Strat, sounds big enough to be a humbucker.  

Sounds very nice

Nice tone and nice playing.

Thanks guys!  Haven't found a low volume (recorded) high gain tone I like yet, but I get caught up noodling more than recording...

Looking forward to some Lonestar samples and hearing the Artisan if you get one Fingers.  The youtube demo sounded incredible.  Special order only, so I did not get to play one.

Kabala - Splawn envy - very nice amp.

Tobe — Apr 20, 2009Thanks guys!  Haven't found a low volume (recorded) high gain tone I like yet, but I get caught up noodling more than recording...

Kabala - Splawn envy - very nice amp.

Thanks, hope my new speaker shows today, wanna start recording some samples...as for envy, I suddenly have some clean tone envy myself, by way of Egnater...how I ended up with two monsters of which neither really excels at clean tones is beyond me, lol. Trying to finding something on the cheap though, could kill two birds actually, just need better than "heh" cleans and slapping a drive pedal in front for practice/woodshedding (no need to wear out tubes prematurely on daily wankery), maybe even go the SS route.

Gone off the idea of the Artisan - turned out that even with the 15/5 watt version it still very loud and needs to be cranked up to get to tone levels.
Spud mentioned it and I read the same in reviews.

My GAS has deflated a bit for the moment. :)

Tobe,  that sounds nice.  

Since I have one, how about amp settings for each part, just for reference, of course   ;)  

Very nice - musical & warm.   :)

Thanks Voxman and Howie.

DreamTheaterRules — Apr 22, 2009Since I have one, how about amp settings for each part, just for reference, of course   ;)  

I have the settings on a couple of post-it notes.  I will let you know.

One small disadvantage - can't preserve a good tone by saving a preset...  Take good notes while recording.

I haven't really missed the presets since I went to all tube amps.  For the most part, I can leave the Rebel on 1:00/1:00/1:00 and it always sounds good at all gain levels.  From there, you can dial it lots of different places.  

DreamTheaterRules — Apr 22, 2009I haven't really missed the presets since I went to all tube amps.  For the most part, I can leave the Rebel on 1:00/1:00/1:00 and it always sounds good at all gain levels.  From there, you can dial it lots of different places.  

A patch or preset is handy if you need to redo a part or punch in on a track.

I didn't jot down the tube mix or mini toggle settings I used, but I had the watts at 10:00, master low, treble 1:30, middle 9:00, Bass 11:00, gain Noon and at 1:30 for the lead with a touch of push from the Bad Monkey.  I switched pickups on the guitar for each pass.  I remember the lead was the middle pickup - it is not wired to the tone control on the EJ.

At the moment I tend to like the mids below 10:00 most of the time.  Every other amp I've owned the bright switch could as well be labeled the 'harsh and piercing' switch.  I actually use the bright setting on this one.